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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 12:54 PM
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Podesta calls on Mitch McConnell to apologize
 
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Podesta Calls On McConnell To Apologize For Denigrating FBI Interrogation Of Abdulmuttalab
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/07/jdp-mcconnell-apology-fbi/
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perdita9 Donating Member (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:02 PM
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1. The Obama Administration should just 'suck it up'
...say the GOP media whores. Absorb all the right wing lies and not respond to them.

Sorry, fake media people, this administration isn't going to keep on being your punching bag. You want to tell lies, be prepared to be called out on them.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:05 PM
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2. Time to start playing some hardball. Call the GOP's comments un-American.
You know that's what they would do.
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JaneFordA Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:26 PM
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4. Overdue for a new game plan
When my brother started fourth grade in a new school (back in 1953), he had some trouble with the well-established bullies on the playground. For about a week, he came home fairly-well worked over; after all, my Mom wanted to bring him up to be a nice little gentleman and was horrified at the prospect of him fighting on the playground.

My dad had other ideas, though (Daddy didn't have much of a b.s.-threshold anyway, rather like me). So after that first week he told the dear brother, "If you come home a mess without having fought back, I'm going to beat you myself."

It must have worked. Jim got a black eye that next school-day but he must have given a couple in return because he never had any bullying problems again.

I'd like to deliver a similar message to the Dems on the hill.
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RayStar Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 03:11 PM
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11. Un-American
you are correct. It is past time for the Dem's to stand up and tell the GOP to go jump in the lake.
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:25 PM
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3. Remember when "they" wanted Nancy Pelosi to apologize for what she said about the CIA?
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W T F Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:33 PM
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5. Now you're talking, fight them with their own talking points and rhetoric
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 01:41 PM
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6. Mitch McConnell should apologize for his entire life thus far.
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Plucketeer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:06 PM
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8. McConnell's parents are the ones that owe us an apology!
Tancredo's folks, Palin's folks, and so on and so forth. :cry:
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DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:06 PM
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7. I dont understand...
so what they announce he is talking....wouldnt that stop other terrorist plans in progress? Wouldnt that tell the terrorists their gig is up? What harm is there saying the suspect is talking?

Didnt they say the same thing about torturing them...they are talking, it's working? WHAT IS THE GAWD DAMNED DIFFERENCE?
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 02:09 PM
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9. Peggy Noonan???? That loony tune? Who cares what her ranting are this week?
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 03:01 PM
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10. This is what I really get tired of saying...
WHERE ARE THE DAMN DEMOCRATS!!! I didn't see but one and I damn sure get tired of seeing the ones they consider to be Dems,backing down and agreeing all of the time..
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DWinNJ Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 04:15 PM
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12. They never admit their faults
The Obama administration may have unwisely revealed that a captured suspect was talking.
The worst that can happen is some terrorists change their plans, but I’m sure once some of their cells started getting raided, they would figure something was up anyway.
The Bush administration, in an effort to show how good they were, ended up revealing intelligence operations and structures that took years to establish.
(and not just Valerie Plame)

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spicegal Donating Member (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-07-10 06:41 PM
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13. Good idea. Start demanding apologies and accusing them of being traitors.
That's what the GOP would be doing. When will the Dems learn to play tough?
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spicegal Donating Member (617 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-08-10 05:57 AM
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14. Well gee, of course this administration shouldn't be allowed to defend itself in the face of
constant political attacks. Podesta is right. If the fricken Repukes would stop playing politics with our national security, it wouldn't be necessary. I'd also like to know why Peggy Noonan is even considered an authority on this topic. She's a former speech writer for Reagan and pundit. She's a shill, who's clearly forgotten how Bush came out with all sorts of public pronouncements about his counterterrorism "successes". I get so sick of these right wingers and their double standards. It doesn't matter what Obama does, they find fault.
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